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We would like to thank the Lord for opening so many doors that provided so many blessings to Spirit Vision Films this last year.

We would also like to thank our many clients for the opportunity to serve them with our videography products. Thank you so much!

Last winter we worked with multiple agencies to create the Off-Channel Reservoir Project, a compelling video highlighting the need for an off-channel reservoir next to the Dungeness River to help the City of Sequim with storm run-off, the farmers using the river to irrigate summer crops, and the returning late summer salmon that depend on the river to spawn. These agencies include:

Clallam County

City of Sequim

Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe

Washington Water Trust

Dungeness Water User’s Association

Clallam Conservation District

We helped with the Taste of the Peninsulafor the third year in a row, creating a video focusing on what the Habitat for Humanity of Clallam County had done throughout the year.

Then working in association with Peninsula Area Public Access TV (PAPA TV) of Port Angeles, we created the first episode of the On the Road series … the New Dungeness Light Station.

We then followed that episode with one created by PAPA TV’s Patric Mcinnes and his Skill Center’s videography class, named the Port Angeles Underground.

Our third episode in the series was completed in late August by Spirit Vision Films and highlighted the Olympic Discovery Trailfrom the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe to the Port Angeles Waterfront trail.

Spirit Vision Films is currently working on the fourth episode, Olympic National Park, Lake Crescent and the Sol Duc River Valley. It is near complete and should be aired this month.

Along the way we also created four videos featuring high-end real estate land, homes, and rentals here on the North Olympic Peninsula.

Also, working for the City of Port Angeles who contracted with PAPA to create eight videos showing the residents of Port Angeles how the city is working for them. Spirit Vision Films created two of the eight:

Public Works Winter Readiness

Port Angeles Fire Department and Operation Candy Cane

We also contributed aerial footage to several organizations including:

Peninsula College’sPirates Soccer video.

Quileute Tribe’s Move to Higher Ground film.

We edited Kitsap County’s the Bucklin Hill Bridge Project, which received an award for their work on that project.

Finally, contracted by Clallam County Road Department, we started the long term McDonald Creek Bridge Project in July of last year, documenting the de-construction and re-construction of this long-awaited and needed bridge project on the Old Olympic Highway. The finished video and bridge should be completed by March of this year.

Without the Lord’s help, none of this would have been possible. Thank you so much!

And again, to all our clients who trusted Spirit Vision Film with their video needs, thank you! It was a very good year!

We are looking forward to what will come our way this year and to continue to serve our clients with support, creative abilities, and integrity for their video and photographic needs!

April 15th always conjures up two words in my mind …… tax day! Usually it is the day you had better have gotten your taxes done and sent in by.

Well this year two things are different. One, we get an extra three days to get it done. And two, it was Habitat of Humanity of Clallam County’s third annual Taste of the Peninsulabenefit dinner and auction.

I have had the privilege of being at all three of the benefits and seeing the generosity of our community come together for the great causes Habitat fulfills on the Peninsula.

I created a video for Habitat, as I have for the last two benefits, describing the work of Habitat. This year, Habitat focused on their Neighborhood Revitalization program they started about two years ago with the partnership of the City of Sequim and the Sequim Sunshine Rotarians, along with many volunteers from all over the Peninsula.

We feasted on some of the best foods and wines of the Peninsula brought to us from businesses like Michael’s of Port Angeles, Olympic Cellars Winery, Jose’s of Sequim, to name just a few of the many who contributed to the success of tonight’s event.

I heard that the auction and event brought in over $28,000 to help with Habitat’s Neighborhood Revitalization program helping homeowners who wouldn’t be able otherwise repair their homes. This will impact low-income seniors, disabled folks, family’s that are struggling to meet the basics of life, let alone replacing a roof, rebuilding a fence, or just applying a new coat of paint to make the house alive again. This is what Habitat’s revitalization program will provide and more.

Here is the video that tells the story, from Neighborhood Revitalization to Rally in the Alley, along with the partners and volunteers who make the program work. You may not be able to help build a Habitat house, but anyone from a child to senior citizen can come out and help cleanup our neighborhoods in Sequim and beyond.

Although the winter seems to be hanging on here in the Pacific Northwest, spring is right around the corner.

Spirit Vision Films has already started its spring roster of films for our clients, beginning with Habitat for Humanity of Clallam County’s annual benefit, Taste of the Peninsulaat the Sunland convention center here in Sequim, in mid-April.

We will be creating a short video for their benefit highlighting their efforts to help not only those that are under-housed, but also those that cannot afford or for lack of strength, repair their houses when needed (senior and the disabled community especially).

It is Habitat’s new program, along with its partners including the City of Sequim and the Rotarian’s as well, called ‘Love thy Neighborhood,’ …. a neighborhood revitalization project aimed at the folks who just need a new fence, or roof, a little paint, or just a good cleaning up, but are unable to do it themselves.

They also have brought out the community in Sequim with their Rally in the Alley events. They just completed the third event two Saturdays ago with the help of over 100 volunteers that swept through northern Sequim’s alleys and streets, collecting enough trash to fill three very large dumpsters. Their previous event collected over 10 tons of garbage. Very impressive! Port Angeles will be targeted next.

Also, Spirit Vision Films in conjunction with PAPA TV has been awarded a grant from the Clallam County Lodging Tax committee to create three videos targeting the tourism segment of the county and the greater Olympic Peninsula.

Beginning in April, Spirit Vision Films, along with PAPA TV personnel will begin shooting a new series, with a working title called, On the Road. Each of the segments will be 30 minutes long and will focus on destinations around the Olympic Peninsula that would attract tourists considering coming to the peninsula for a visit.

The first video will focus on the New Dungeness Light Station on the Dungeness Spit. We will be following a group or couple that have signed up to become ‘keepers’ on the lighthouse for one week. We will also be relating the history of the lighthouse, as well as the Dungeness Recreational Area that you can take to get to the lighthouse by hiking 7 miles (one way!) on the spit to the lighthouse.

Our second tentative shoot will be highlighting the Olympic Discovery Trail from Blyn to Port Angeles. We will be stopping at points of interest along the way like the Sequim Bay State Park, John Wayne Marina, The Railroad Bridge Park, and the Port Angeles waterfront portion of the trail. We our going to have some fun!

Our third video’s location has not been determined as yet, but we’ll keep you informed as we go forward on this project.

And of course, when the videos are completed, you will find them right here! Stay tuned!

Once again this year I attended the Habitat for Humanity of Clallam County’s ‘Taste of the Peninsula’ fund raising event held at the Sunland Conference Center outside Sequim. They were celebrating 25 years of providing low cost housing to the under-housed of the North Olympic Peninsula.

Spirit Vision Films again produced a short video to highlight the history of this ministry and was shown at the event. Unfortunately due to copyright issues the video could only be shown at the event and I will not be able to upload it to this site. But I took plenty of images of the event to capture the flavor of the fund raiser. Their theme this year of course was the 25 year history, but they gave out 34 wooden doors to the community’s of Sequim, Port Angeles, and Forks to create artwork highlighting that 25 year theme. They were then auctioned off this evening to help the organization going forward.

For the first time Habitat is expanding, with the help of the City of Sequim and the Sequim Sunshine Rotary (Rotary International). They have created what they call the ‘Neighborhood Revitalization Program.’ Now in addition to providing affordable low cost homes to the Peninsula, they will be assisting low income home owners that cannot afford to do critical repair, home preservation, and weatherization. Very cool!

The event highlighted some great wines from local wineries including Olympic Cellars Winery where I have done quite a bit of work in the past. It was good to see Lisa and Tom, the owners of the winery there tonight. Also represented were many local eateries that provided absolutely luscious food for the folks at the fund raiser. Great stuff!

All in all it was another great night for the organization. I am looking forward to working with Colleen, Cyndi, and Trisha in the future. These folks are awesome!

Once again Habitat for Humanity of Clallam County will be holding their benefit fundraiser, the Taste of the Peninsula. It will be held on April 16th, 2016 at the Sunland Ballroom in Sequim, Washington.

And Spirit Vision Films will again create a short video for them to be shown that night in honor of Habitat’s 25th year serving the under-housed on the North Olympic Peninsula. Last year’s video was well received (you can see that one in our archives) and it is my desire to help make their video no less effective this year as well.

Habitat came up with the idea to have 25 doors painted by local artists and other folks who wanted to get involved with the project, including very young folks indeed! As it turned out the response was overwhelming and they actually got 33 doors in the hands of folks who then turned them into works of art. These doors will be auctioned off at the Taste of the Peninsula.

Habitat presented the artistic doors to the public at the Sequim Civic Center at the Friday Art Walk, March 4th, at the Rainforest Art Center in Forks, March 9th, and finally in Port Angeles on March 12th, at Studio Bob’s upstairs gallery. The public turned out in force to see these very cool works of art. I managed to make the Sequim and Port Angeles showings and photographed some of the doors to be auctioned off.

Hope to see you at the Taste of the Peninsula on April 16th, 2016. Here are some of the doors that will be auctioned that night:

Working with Habitat for Humanity of Clallam County has been a lot a fun for me personally, as well as Spirit Vision Films.

The staff and volunteers of HFHCC are absolutely genuine, deeply caring folks with a burden for the under-housed of the North Olympic Peninsula. This is why I like working with them on these great video projects.

We just finished their volunteer video that highlights some of the many volunteers and a few of the recipient home owners who have benefited from the Habitat program.

The video is call to volunteering in our community. I like their organization, mission, and what they bring to our community on the Peninsula. Habitat for Humanity of Clallam County was voted best non-profit in 2015 on the Olympic Peninsula and for good reason. I hope anyone that views this video will not only consider coming and volunteering for Habitat, which is why we made the video, but if not Habitat do something for your fellow human being in some capacity. You will not only help them, but you will most certainly help yourself as well.